Guy Creates A Knife-Wrench Out Of An Old Monkey Wrench
This guy could be a video game hero.
Published 7 years ago in Ftw
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"My bored boy-mind saw some ready-made knife like features in the design that I wanted to keep- the adjustable lower grip was already a guard, there was already a fuller groove, and those little teeth were already half way to becoming serrations. The twirly adjusting thing (i don't know wrench-anatomy) would make a pretty cool feature and serve as a finger grip."
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"Started shaping out the head into the tip of my knife. Because it was so sunny, it was really hard to tell how hot the blade was. I ended up having to pull my apron over my head and checking out what colour the blade glowed in the shadow, and it's really hard to take photographs when you're doing that. As it's a coal forge, I get a really good heat on there and it's actually pretty easy to overheat if I'm not being careful."
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"After a some hammering, the blade is complete! It was a challenge to forge around the moving grip whilst keeping it intact, which is why the shoulder of the blade suddenly scrunches in. Once the width of the blade was drawn out, it stopped the lower grip from being able to move, although it still rattled a bit."
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"The handle did have some lettering stamped on it that might have made a cool feature, but it was quite worn and i thought that the lower grip was enough, so I added some oak scales with two pins, and set with epoxy, While that was happening, I profiled the serrated teeth with a needle file and did a bit of light sanding."
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